Joseph Anthony Peterburs

Joseph Anthony Peterburs (1924-) was a US Air Force lieutenant during World War II and the Korean War.

Biography
Joseph Anthony Peterburs was born in Minnesota, and he enlisted in the US Air Force in 1942 during World War II. Peterburs served in the 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, and he piloted a P-51 Mustang; on 10 April 1945, he shot down Walter Schuck's Me 262, and Schuck survived the crash. After the war, Peterburs served in the Korean War, and he also fought in the Vietnam War as a Lieutenant-Colonel during the 1968 Tet Offensive. Peterburs retired from the military in 1979, returning to his home state of California. In 2005, while Walter Schuck was visiting the United States, he met his former opponent Peterburs, and they were close friends until Schuck's death in 2015.